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- Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010
ZNet Article Jyoti Basu (1914-2010) slipped into the night. He was a lifelong Marxist and Communist, and was the Chief Minister of Bengal from 1977 to 2000. Basu's service to Communism and to Bengal was equivalent: he wavered from neither. -
- Thursday, Nov 26, 2009
ZNet Article Kashmir hangs over Mumbai, whose Gateway to India accepted the assailants who struck a year ago today. It haunts it. -
- Saturday, Nov 07, 2009
ZNet Article Raul Prebisch was not born in Buenos Aires. His father was a German immigrant who married into a declasse branch of a prominent Argentine family. Advantages did not come to him by the accident of birth. He had to make his own career, pushing again... -
- Monday, Oct 05, 2009
ZNet Article Rajendra Pachauri heads TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute, based in New Delhi. An engineer of the railways in his early career, Pachauri went to the United States to earn a PhD in industrial engineering and another in economics, after whic... -
- Sunday, Jul 05, 2009
Video On January 3, 2009 Historians Against the War met at the Sheraton in New York City during the annual convention of the American Historical Association for a panel discussion on "The Bush-Cheney Administration." -
- Sunday, Apr 26, 2009
ZNet Article President Barack Obama inherited two seemingly intractable wars, in Iraq and in Afghanistan, alongside a financial crisis that continues to escalate. Obama positioned himself against the unpopular Iraq war, but he did not place himself in the anti... -
- Sunday, Mar 01, 2009
ZMag Article A review of a book by Vijay Prashad in the People's History series -
- Sunday, Jan 18, 2009
ZNet Article Israeli contempt for the United Nations begins in the 1940s and continues to this day... -
- Saturday, Dec 27, 2008
Commentary On Thursday, November 27, in the middle of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Imran Babar, one of the terrorists, called India TV from Nariman House. He used a cellphone that belonged to Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, the co-director of the Chabad-Lubavitch ... -
- Wednesday, Nov 12, 2008
ZNet Article Barack Obama has appointed John Podesta to run his transition. During the lean years of the Bush administration, Podesta, native of Chicago, ran a shadow cabinet for the Democrats. Since 2003, the home of this government-in-exile has been the Cent... -
- Saturday, Oct 25, 2008
ZNet Article The deepening financial crisis in the U.S. forces the neoconservatives to reverse their policies. -
- Monday, Sep 29, 2008
Commentary Che was fated to the mythic. Even his birthday attached him to a long tradition of popular struggle: he was born on Bastille Day, the commemoration of the opening of the French Revolution. [Some doubt that this was his actual birthday; his parents... -
- Thursday, Sep 18, 2008
Commentary Hidden in the bowels of the University of Iowa library are the papers of Lement Harris (1904-2002). Harris came from money (his father co-founded Texaco) and he took his degree from Harvard. When he graduated in 1926 he decided to avoid the career... -
- Saturday, Sep 06, 2008
ZNet Article In the 2004 general election, the Indian electorate denied the intransigent right-wing power over the State. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance lost out to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, although the l... -
- Friday, Sep 05, 2008
Commentary Rosa Clemente, 35, is the vice presidential candidate for the Green Party of the United States. Clemente, who is Puerto Rican, was born in the South Bronx, New York, and educated at the University of Albany and at Cornell University. A vibrant com... -
- Saturday, Jun 14, 2008
Commentary After a brief fourteen-minute speech on June 12, Nepal's last King of the 239 year Shah dynasty, Gyanendra, departed from the side entrance of the Narayanhiti Palace to live out his days in the former summer home of his ancestors. "I have done all... -
- Thursday, May 22, 2008
Commentary When Bill Clinton ran for the White House in 1992, I was deeply annoyed. He represented so much that we, on the left, despised: the reaction within the ranks of the Democratic Party's elite that wanted to "save" the party from what it saw as the e... -
- Sunday, Mar 23, 2008
Commentary Barack Obama's suggestion that he would sit down and talk with the Iranian Prime Minister is perhaps the most sensible policy proposal in the stale foreign policy air of Washington, DC. Twice before Teheran has publicly reached out to the US, but ... -
- Wednesday, Mar 19, 2008
Commentary A fractured electorate cannot unite behind candidates. The Republicans have their candidate (Boom, Boom McCain). The Democrats are divided by age, gender and race. In the murky results and polls it is hard to fathom the outcome. What is clear is t... -
- Wednesday, Jan 30, 2008
Commentary No more the black sails, the fierce cries, the blood lust. Now the pirates ride small motorboats, silent, armed especially with cell phones, GPS systems and automatic weapons. By stealth the boats come right up to the rudder of the cargo vessel, s... -
- Tuesday, Dec 25, 2007
Commentary The first car bomb exploded on Wall Street. It was set there by an Italian American anarchist, Mario Buda, in solidarity with Sacco and Vanzetti. Forty people died on that September 1920 day, and the assassin fled the country for his native Italy.... -
- Saturday, Dec 01, 2007
ZMag Article Call it the curse of Columbus. The conquistadors came to what would be called the Americas in search of gold, god, and glory. Gold they found, eventually, and between the sword and the crucifix they brought God as well. It was harder to measure gl... -
- Thursday, Nov 15, 2007
Commentary I read the introduction of Iran's president by Columbia's president with embarrassment. "You exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator,"said Lee Bollinger... -
- Thursday, Oct 25, 2007
ZNet Article On October 12, 2007, the Congress Party threw in the towel. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the leader of the United Progressive Alliance Sonia Gandhi told the press that they would step back from the US-India nuclear deal. "If the deal ... -
- Wednesday, Oct 24, 2007
Commentary The Generals are jumping ship. Retired Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez, onetime head of the US army in Iraq, is the latest to put daylight between himself and the White House. The Bush team, he said in early October, is "incompetent and corrupt." Thei... -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
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